Articles tagged ‘Queen’s birthday’

Trooping the Colour

By Chris | June 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

This Saturday 16 June the Trooping the Colour ceremony to officially celebrate the Queen’s birthday takes place on London’s Horse Guards Parade. Its one of the biggest annual display’s of military pageantry with massed ranks of infantry, cavalry and military bands, all in their ceremonial uniforms.
Horse Guards Parade is the large parade ground at the [...]

 

Royal Park events in April

By Chris | April 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

There are a number of free events happening in London’s Royal Park’s before the end of April including at 12 noon on 21 April in Hyde Park, a 41 gun salute by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery to celebrate the Queen’s 81st birthday. (They’ll also be a 62 gun salute at 1pm by the [...]